Saturday, February 24, 2018

(Aden) A suicide attack today highlights the Byzantine nature of the war inside Yemen . The attack by Islamic state on the headquarters of a counter-terrorism unit in the southern
port city of Aden on Saturday highlights killing 14 and injuring 40 shows how complicated the situation in the country is. On the side of the rebels we have Iran. They had the forces of the ex president on his side, but when they killed him off the other month, that saw his forces join the otherside. On the side of the official UN recognised Government we have Saudi Arabia and other gulf states. In between we have ISIS and Al qaeda. Then on top of all that we have the US which is fighting Al Qaeda.If that wasn't complicated enough the tribes of the south who were fighting the rebels on the side of the Government and Saudi Arabia, decided to make a play for power themselves and have carved themselves their own little caliphate under the remit of the separatist Southern Transitional Council (STC) who captured the port city of Aden and the surrounding area at the end of January 2018.

Which was where the bombings today took place. The first bomb targeted an anti-terrorism military camp with
detention facilities for suspected militants, while the other targeted an
office for the separatist Southern Transitional Council (STC) which is also the
residence of Aden’s former governor, Aidarous al-Zubaidi,

Islamic State, in a statement carried by its Amaq news
agency, claimed responsibility for what it described as two "martyrdom
operations" The attack was the
first one of its kind in southern Yemen since the southern separatists took the city from the Hadi government over control of the city.

Anybody
else notice that a Sunni terrorist organisation which a lot of people claim is
funded by Saudi Arabian citizensjust happened
to hit a town that used to be under the control of SA and its allies in an area
that ISIS hasn’t shown its face for a while.